FRQBetween 1676 and 1739 there were a lot of rebellions, uprisings, wars, and revolts in colonial America. Two specific rebellions are Bacon’s Rebellion, which occurred in 1676, and the Stono Rebellion, which occurred in 1739. These two rebellions were caused by pent up anger and tension between slaves and indentured servants and white people. Both Bacon’s Rebellion and the Stono Rebellion were the cause of Native American and Slave tensions. Bacon’s Rebellion started when the Susquehannock people of the upper Potomac River had a conflict with the tobacco planters expanding outward from Virginia. Violent raids led by Nathaniel Bacon, led to the massacre of natives. This rebellion highlighted a developing conflict between frontier districts and the more established coastal region, where the Indian and Native American issue had been settled. Colonial authorities in Virginia and North Carolina began to favor armed expansion into Indian Territory, hoping to gain the support of backcountry men by enlarging the stock of available colonial land. Planters’ fear of disorder among former indentured servants encouraged them to accelerate the transition to slave labor. This could all be considered Native American and slave tension. In contrast, the Stono Rebellion was caused by a small group of Native Americans. In 1739, a group of 20 Angolans armed themselves and began a march toward Florida and with search for freedom. They plundered a number of planters’ homes and killed about thirty colonists. After this rebellion, uprisings continued to occur throughout the United States. Planters and farmers grew scared that an uprising could start on their farms. To stop all of the uprisings, colonial officials shut off the slave trade through Charleston for the next ten years. The slave trade stopped due to Native American and slave tensions. In conclusions, Bacon’s Rebellion and the Stono Rebellion are very important parts of history. They both involved and cause Native...

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- Bacon’s Rebellion, the Pueblo Revolt, and the Stono Rebellion reflected socio-economic tensions, relations with the Native Americans, and racial tension, respectively, in colonial society, shaping colonial America in the way we know it today.
I. Socio-economic tensions arose amongst the settlers and Native Americans in colonial society.
A. Virginia Governor, William Berkeley, refused to retaliate for Indian attacks on frontier settlements due to the fact that he would have to then tax the wealthy, of which he was friends with. This angered the former indentured servants, poor whites, and poor blacks that felt belittled by the disregard for their own safety in lieu of taxation on plantation owners and officials.
B. Group of people, led by Nathaniel Bacon, took matters into their own hands. They attacked Native Americans, chased Berkeley from Virginia, and then burned Jamestown. This is considered a play on power by Bacon, who...

...and because the colonies were under Salutary Neglect, they had much more trading freedom, not only of the import of slaves, but the export of products the slaves cultivated. These products made the planters much more profit than if indentured servants had cultivated them. This was called the Triangular Trade in which many slaves were brought to the West Indies first where they were trained before being sent to the colonies. The unrest of the indentured servants in the British colonies, along with racist ideas and open trade made the British colonies a perfect place for slaves to be brought in and used and was a catalyst for slavery’s expansion.
Not everyone however was for slavery and many slaves themselves revolted. The Stono Rebellion (1739) was a slave uprising in South Carolina. 60 slaves were recruited and they killed about 25 whites before being cut off by the South Carolina militia. In wake of this, the South Carolina legislature passed the Negro Act of 1740. This restricted slave assembly, their education and movement. They also put in place a 10 year import ban of slaves to the colony and penalties if a slaveholder punished their slave too harshly. Along with this, there had been slave uprisings in New York City in 1712 and 1741 as well as many runaways. Runaways happened in both the North and the South. The northern slaves would flee to Canada and the southern slaves would go farther to the north. The difference between the two was that the...

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After the Civil War ended, America had a big task to deal with. There was devastation throughout the nation. The Reconstruction Era started, and the process of repairing the Union went underway. Newly freed slaves had to begin the process of adapting to society and making it
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Although New England and the Chesapeake region were settled largely by people of English origin, by 1700 the regions developed into two distinct societies. Why did this difference in development occur and in what ways were these societies different?
Introduction and Thesis
The east coast of North America was settled by Englishmen of the same ethnicity, but by 1700 they had developed into two distinct societies.
Body Paragraph 1 – Founded for different purposes and under different climate
- New England founded for religious reasons
o Puritans persecuted in England  wanted “New England”
 Separatists founded Plymouth, broke from Anglican Church
 Anglican Church reform too slow, moderate Puritans  Bay Colony
- “We shall be that city upon a hill” Winthrop
o Connecticut, the “Blue Law State”
 Founded by energetic Puritans  wanted a closer church-government alliance
o Exception of Rhode Island also found based for religious freedom.
 Founded by Roger Williams to “protest” against Puritan’s strict tolerations  freedom of worship
- Chesapeake colonies founded for economic reasons
o Jamestown settlers looked for gold
 Gentlemen faced “starving time” b/c didn’t plant crops to survive
 John Smith “he who shall not work, shall not eat”
- Those worked for economy only
o Cultivation of tobacco by James Rolfe
 Indentured servants who came here looked for new start in economic life
 No Puritans
o Exception Maryland, Catholic haven...

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Of all the slave rebellions of the seventeen hundreds, the Stono Rebellion would come to be known as the largest and most violent, and would have the most dramatic effects on the government’s regulation and surveillance of enslaved African-Americans. There are several speculated causes of the insurrection, one of which being the Security Act of 1739; stating that men should bear weapons during church services as a precaution against slaves. Another possible cause was the frustration with the ineffectiveness of the government in that region, due to a recent epidemic. Though the exact cause is not clear, the purpose of the rebellion is evident: rumor of escaped slaves obtaining freedom and land by crossing into Spanish-controlled Florida had reached the ears of the slaves of Carolina and their intent was to march all the way there, and slaughter anyone who got in their way.
The leader of the rebellion was an educated, Angolan slave named Jemmy. Angolan meaning he was probably from the kingdom of Kongo in Central Africa. Researchers believe that Jemmy, and several of his followers from the same area, had experience with firearms due to Kongo's suppression of the Mbamba revolt. Jemmy and about 20 other slaves met near the Stono River on September 9, 1739. At a nearby store, they seized firearms and ammunition and killed the white shop keepers, thus beginning the trail of destruction and murder.
They...

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...to the Jamestown colony in 1619, joining the ranks of indentured servants and working side-by-side with whites. There was no legal definition of slavery at the time. Eventually, with significant free land to begin competitor farms, European indentured servants often finished or abandoned their indentured life to begin anew. This created an ever-growing void for labor, and presented a flaw with indentured-servitude— if they could start their own farm, what would keep them at another? This frightened the planters, who feared rebellion and faced a lack of labor. At the same time, Africans were steadily being brought into America for servitude. In fact, by the mid-1680s black slaves outnumbered their European counterparts. Bacon’s Rebellion, 1676, was a rebellion staged by white descendants of or former indentured-servants living on the frontier against the government of Virginia over defending land from Indians. The result, however, was the end of indentured servitude. It presented too much of a risk— servitude would have to be continued in another way. This way was achieved when in 1682 Virginia issued a slave code that marked the first distinction that all peoples imported to the country of color were to be slaves. This was important because it introduced race into the realm of servitude. Now slavery was both legally enforced and racial. This was a significant force to the development of the black slavery and white supremacist culture we associate with...

...Ruhani Malik
Period 4
1960’s HW FRQ Questions
Due by April 26-27, 2012
Be sure to provide a strong and specific thesis statement with a nice introduction to your essay. Also be sure to provide names, dates, book titles, court cases, statistics and any and all other relevant facts you can think of to support your answer. Staple this sheet to the front of your essay and be sure to follow the formatting rules discussed for previous FRQ’s.
1. With respect to THREE of the following, analyze the view that the 1960’s represented a period of profound cultural change:
• Ethnic Pride
• Gender Roles
• Music
• Race Relations
• Hippies
• Sexual Revolution
2. Explain THREE of the following and analyze the ways in which each of the three has affected the status of women in American society since 1940:
• 1950’s View of Women vs. 1960’s View of Women
• Changing Economic Conditions
• The Rebirth of an Organized Women’s Rights Movement (ERA)
• Advances in Reproductive Technology (Roe v. Wade and contraception)
• The Persistence of Traditional Definitions of Women’s Roles (Friedan)
3. Compare the goals and strategies of the African-American reform movements of the period 1890-1910 to the goals and strategies of the African-American reform movements in the period 1950-1970. Be sure to discuss ALL of the...